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(OSV News) -- At the April 19 Easter Vigil at parishes across America, the church will welcome many new Catholics. Perhaps that doesn't sound extraordinary....
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(OSV News) -- Legislation that would require clergy to report child abuse or neglect in Washington state was recently approved by the Legislature and has...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- As legislators in multiple states seek to advance so-called "medical aid in dying" laws, a Catholic ethicist warned the practice...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Thousands of Catholics across the country will unite in prayer for pregnant and parenting moms in need during an April 19-27 novena...
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (OSV News) -- Deacon Nicholas Monnin remembers the first time he sang in front of an audience. He was a student at the Cathedral School...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A federal judge on April 11 declined to block the Trump administration from carrying out Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions...
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(OSV News) -- Two years ago, Maximilian Glamuzina first learned about Blessed Carlo Acutis during a school Mass, when his pastor preached about the teenager's...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- As the Trump administration moved to formally dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development, Catholic Relief Services,...
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CHICAGO (OSV News) -- The Archdiocese of Chicago filed a countersuit March 24 against seven alleged victims of clergy child sex abuse who either have pending...
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(OSV News) -- In a world where material success often takes center stage, what does true success mean for women today? How can they navigate the delicate...
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(OSV News) -- In a world economy rocked by the whiplash of American trade tariffs that has spared few countries, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Brian Burch, President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, defended the Trump administration's cuts to...
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (OSV News) -- Pope Francis has named a new bishop of the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, Bishop Bruce Alan Lewandowski, C.S.R.,...
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Pope Francis appoints new bishop of Providence (OSV News) — Pope Francis has named a new bishop of the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, Bishop...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said it would not renew its cooperative agreements with the federal government related...
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (OSV News) -- The Maryland House passed a bill April 3 that makes significant changes to the Child Victims Act, lowering the limits for...
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(OSV News) -- Here is a timeline of key events in the life of the late Theodore E. McCarrick, beginning with his ordination as a priest for the Archdiocese...
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(OSV News) -- The pastor of a parish in Seneca, Kansas, was shot in his rectory and later died of his injuries at a local hospital April 3. In a message...
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(OSV News) -- Backcountry camping, white water rafting and rock climbing are key draws for campers at Camp Wojtyla, a Catholic camp in Colorado's Rocky...
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(OSV News) -- Inside a century-old church in Toledo, Ohio, is a decidedly newer statue of a soon-to-be-saint. The image of Blessed Carlo Acutis depicts...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument April 2 in a case concerning South Carolina's attempt to prevent Planned Parenthood...
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MONTCLAIR, N.J. (OSV News) -- The rector of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Oratory in Montclair sees an upcoming one-day exhibit at the church featuring hundreds...
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(OSV News) -- Idaho lawmakers recently approved legislation that will require public schools to teach fetal development and show ultrasound video to students...
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NOTRE DAME, Ind. (OSV News) -- The University of Notre Dame Law School hosted for the first time a four-day event to promote the abolition of the death...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on March 31 heard oral arguments in a case from the Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The language of the latest incarnation of the Let Pregnancy Centers Serve Act, a bill aimed at protecting more than 2,700 pregnancy...
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(OSV News) -- It was an era of required isolation and paralyzing fear -- fear of the unknown, fear of what might happen next and even fear of each other. According...
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(OSV News) -- Bobby Schindler still remembers his older sister's love of animals. "We had a Labrador growing up, a family pet that she just adored," he...
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Several pro-life organizations are praising President Donald Trump's administration for plans to freeze tens of millions of dollars in federal taxpayer...
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Mel Gibson's sequel to "The Passion of the Christ" -- "The Resurrection of the Christ" -- is set to begin production in Italy this August, according...
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The Archdiocese of Chicago this week filed a lawsuit alleging a "racketeering enterprise" among a group of individuals who reportedly filed false abuse...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Supreme Court March 26 upheld a Biden administration effort to regulate so-called "ghost guns," or unserialized, untraceable...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Representatives of Catholic and immigration advocacy organizations, and Washington's new Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, grappled...
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(OSV News) -- Catholic groups that minister to migrants and refugees are expressing concern over President Donald Trump's order to revoke the parole program...
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INDIANAPOLIS (OSV News) -- An investigation by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis into an alleged Eucharistic miracle at an Indiana parish has indicated that...
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(OSV News) -- A Satanic group planning a "black mass" at the Kansas Statehouse March 28 has sworn in court it is not in possession of a consecrated host...
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(OSV News) -- Since NCAA Division I women's basketball first instituted a postseason tournament to determine a national champion in 1982, the University...
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(OSV News) -- Hitting 1 million followers on Instagram is an achievement often celebrated in creative ways by social media influencers, but when Father...
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(OSV News) -- A Catholic church in Kansas has been targeted in what that state's bishops are calling a "hate crime." St. Patrick Church in Wichita announced...
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(OSV News) -- Long before Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor raised her famous peacocks as an adult in rural Georgia, she kept canaries and chickens at...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A federal judge in Washington on March 18 blocked the Trump administration from banning people who identify as transgender from...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Catholic Relief Services, the overseas charitable arm of the Catholic Church in the U.S., urged the Trump administration to issue...
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(OSV News) -- Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, has filed a motion for the return of the Eucharist, a consecrated host and consecrated...
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